News and features about Estonia and Estonians
According to the United Nations’ data on drugs, Estonia is among the top 30 nations for marijuana consumption. Despite the ultra-orthodox public thinking on all kind of drugs and fierce opposition for legalising cannabis by most Estonian politicians, officially 6% of the country’s population regularly smoke weed. With this number, Estonia is 28th biggest marijuana […]
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The Hotel Viru is an iconic hotel in the centre of Tallinn, the Estonian capital, where, during the Soviet occupation, many foreign, mostly Finnish, tourists were accommodated – and it was also a hotbed for the KGB. The Hotel Viru was built in 1972. From the outside, it looks much like it did when it
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The Estonian team won the women’s épée battle at the World Fencing Championships in Leipzig, beating China. Team Estonia emerged victorious in the German town of Leipzig that hosted the most important fencing event in the world. The Estonian épée fencers – Irina Embrich, Julia Beljayeva, Kristina Kuusk and Erika Kirpu – demonstrated some power
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Estonia is about to grow a little taller as the country prepares to abandon the previously used Kronstadt tide gauge for measuring heights above the sea level and switch to the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum used in Western Europe. The change goes into effect on New Year’s Day 2018, and as the difference between the Kronstadt
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By visiting these towns, you get the amazing opportunity to see every side of Estonia and experience the fascinating culture that runs through it. Everyone has heard of Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu, but there is so much more to discover in this small, yet fascinating country of Estonia than its largest cities. Here are four
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NATO has released a short, dramatised documentary about forest brothers – the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against the Soviet occupation. Forest brothers (in Estonian: metsavennad, in Latvian: meža brāļi, and in Lithuanian: miško broliai) were the partisans who waged a guerrilla war against the Soviet invasion and occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during and after the Second World War. The members
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On Saturday, 1 July 2017, Estonia takes upon its shoulders the presidency of the council of the European Union – a rotating presidency every member of the EU holds for six months at a time. This means that for the next six months, Estonia will be responsible for defining the council’s positions while taking into
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Petteri Lyytinen, a Finnish entrepreneur, says that while there are many similarities between Finland and Estonia, the differences matter – so much so that he chose Estonian capital Tallinn as his new home. This article is published as part of a new project within the EU-Russia studies programme at the University of Tartu that analyses personal stories based on
The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrated its centenary with a congress in Tartu, having gathered together the church’s members, voluntary helpers, workers and clergy. The church had dedicated the years 2017 and 2018 to the topic “Landmarks of Freedom” to remember and celebrate the anniversaries on events that have influenced the Estonian people and the
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The Estonian rally driver, Ott Tänak, claimed his maiden victory at the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) in Italy on Sunday. The Estonian, competing for M-Sport team in the WRC, won the Rally Italia Sardegna by 12.3 seconds in a Ford Fiesta, his first victory in 73 starts, to climb to the third place in the championship standings.
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